Etymologies

Examples

Also, be sure to tell your daughters the smooth-talking young man will never become pregnant, that they will have to say "no" firmly and loudly if they want his life to be similarly messed-up after coerced sex. arkizzle/Moderator

In late September, Robert Grenier, the dapper, smooth-talking CIA station chief in Islamabad, traveled to Baluchistan, a Pakistani province of vast, broiling deserts less than a hundred miles from the Taliban headquarters of Kandahar, for a clandestine meeting with Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani, the number-two official in the Taliban.

But when Sarah leaves Frank for Jacques (Bacon), a smooth-talking drug dealer, Frank transforms into pseudo superhero The Crimson Bolt, stakes out Jacques sleazy hideaway, and wages a one-man war on crime.

The news, coming to us by way of The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog, is that the Oscar-winning director of "American Beauty" may next turn his attention to the smooth-talking, lady-seducing, martini-drinking -- shaken, not stirred, 'natch -- MI6 agent with a license to kill.

If you are so driven to write a book, you would do far better to consider authoring a work on the subject of how women such as yourself can be duped and misled by shameless, smooth-talking charlatans who offer “credentials” which are nothing more than fantasy-based plot elements from Hollywood ‘spy’ thrillers.

It's certainly a better apology that the kind I always got from one smooth-talking ex of mine, who could say "I'm so sorry you got upset over nothing" in such a convincing manner, I bought it for several years.